Small Business  Other countries have figured this out. The United States is beginning to figure it out. It is not marijuana. We want to grow hemp. It is an incredible product. It can be used for many things. I am encouraging the parliamentary secretary, as I have many on that side, to get hemp out of health and into agriculture.

Industry committee  I haven't seen anything whatsoever, and that's a bit of a concern of mine. Even when we brought in marijuana in Canada, a riding like mine got at least an educational flyer. We did public awareness to make sure that people weren't going to be accidentally bringing it across the border and clogging the border up by accident and creating all kinds of problems.

Human Resources committee  There are some things we need to do to work with that. Another thing is the medical use of marijuana. I sat on a health and welfare trust fund where we were able to include medical marijuana as an expense that the plan would cover. [Technical difficulty—Editor] use went up like 60%, and opioid prescriptions went down by 80%.

Health  The Minister of Mental Health and Addictions was at the Standing Committee on Health and said that decriminalizing heroin and other street drugs was no answer to preventing deaths. She also said that the legalization of marijuana did not stop users from buying on the black market and that decriminalization still meant people went to the street to get their drugs. I am going to speak a bit about how there is no silver bullet to tackling this crisis.

Justice committee  I can't speak specifically to the report that you're quoting from, but I want to address the assertion that's been put forward before the committee that it will be a free-for-all in Canada with decriminalization. That is simply not going to happen. It's a different issue, and marijuana was legalized, not decriminalized, but the sky did not fall when marijuana was legalized in Canada. If sex work were to be decriminalized in Canada, it doesn't mean that people are going to turn out and start working in the sex industry in greater numbers than they are right now.

Justice committee  A legalized industry we can, in a very loose way, just for comprehension, compare it to the way marijuana was legalized in Canada, where the government actually controls the where, how and when it can happen, which is most definitely not a decriminalized system. In a decriminalized system, sex workers would not have the threat of law enforcement, CBSA or other industries, in their face all the time.

Science and Research committee  I think you started with the winery, and now have the distillery. The last time I was down there, greenhouses were looking at, perhaps, marijuana research, so you have the whole suite. Are those in partnerships with private industry at all, or do you have your own brands?

Public Safety committee  One of the most heartbreaking and hard cases I've ever dealt with was representing a young Black man who was charged with first-degree murder. He attended a house to steal some marijuana. It was one of the most tragic and heartbreaking cases I've ever seen. Around that time, I saw a number of cases dealing with marijuana and firearms. Since marijuana was legalized, I've seen zero.

Emergencies Act  Since being elected in 2015, the Liberal government may have initially responded to a certain need for freedom, a renewed desire for feminism, a new freedom to smoke marijuana and to be whoever we want, however we want, but let us admit that we are now seeing the consequences of the Liberals' shortcomings. Experts will tell us the full implications, but for now, an entire generation has lost its footing, its roots and its social identity.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Would it be the individual chief and council, or would the indigenous community as a whole be able to tax with relation to, say, marijuana?

Public Safety committee  Although we continue to research this, those things are obviously closely related to some of the trends we're seeing. This shows some distinct changes from when the legalization of marijuana came into effect and those drug patterns changed. Not that it was the indicator; it just goes to show that the stronger drugs are certainly more involved than they ever were. We obviously have lots of things to talk about in relation to things that also could be done, but I'll leave that for the questions.

Finance committee  Of course, the government must do the little things right: no more blowing thousands of dollars on sex-toy shows in Germany and no more marijuana simulation kits for the military or spending thousands of dollars on red-carpet parties for communications staff. The government must also do the big things right: no more giving 312,000 federal bureaucrats pay raises during a pandemic while their neighbours lose their jobs and perhaps their businesses and take pay cuts, and no more giving businesses like the Ford Motor Corporation $295 million.

Criminal Code  This is about the hardened criminals, the drug traffickers, the people who are producing these drugs, especially the drugs nowadays. This is not simple marijuana. This is crystal meth and fentanyl. These are the drugs actually killing Canadians on a daily basis and we need to do something about that, not letting criminals off.

Criminal Code and Controlled Drugs and Substances Act  Automatic expungement is clearly what is needed after seeing the failure of the government's program for expedited pardons for marijuana convictions, a program that has granted pardons for less than 500 people of the estimated 10,000 eligible in the two years it has been operating. We need something better; we need automatic expungement of these records.

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply  Like everything, he thinks budgets will balance themselves and emissions will lower themselves. He has failed on every single piece of his legislative agenda in 2015, except marijuana. I guess that is a personal favourite of his. The Prime Minister has failed in every measure. He has raised our taxes. He did not lower our emissions. We are the only country in the G7 where emissions have gone up during the Prime Minister's time in government over the last five years.